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Duma votes to ease pretrial retsrictions on economic offenders

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Mar 12, 2010 16:29 Moscow Time
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The Lower House of the Russian Parliament has approved the initial version of a Kremlin bill to ease pre-trial restrictions on suspected violators of federal laws that govern business. Pre-trial detention is to be largely replaced with bail or a travel ban. The measure follows pronouncements by President Dmitry Medvedev, when he met with business executives on February 26th, that punishment usually deters crime by inevitability rather than severity. In a comment to his bill on Friday, he also calls attention to the fact that some 70 thousand Russian offenders receive non-custodial sentences each year and keeping such people behind bars is unnecessary and only leads to overcrowding in the prison system. 

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